Living Here

The Museums of the Guadalupe Valley

Perhaps not ranking in fame with the fountains of Rome or the hanging gardens of Babylon, the museums of the Guadalupe valley are hard to overlook and deserve notice. As you transit the valley on either main road, you cannot help but notice the many museum signs pointing left and right down a dirt road, leaving you wondering how many …

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¿Hablás español?

I do. Sort of. Translation: my English-speaking friends admire what they take to be my fluent Spanish; my Spanish-speaking friends know that is far from the actuality.  I do try. I try hard. I’m not afraid to make mistakes or sound silly.  So if I find myself where Spanish is spoken (even if English is spoken too), I’ll be trotting …

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Baja’s Click-on.com our Favorite Mail Service

When we arrived in La Mision one year ago, our first stop was Click-On.  We were told we could set up mail service there and we were anxious to do so. My husband and I were thinking it would be nice to continue to get mail from friends and family back home, but that is just the start of what …

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Beach Care

I collect trash from all over the world.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t keep it.  But every morning when I walk my dog down the beach, I grab a couple of plastic grocery bags on my way out the door, and off we go, ambling along the sandy highway, collecting bits and pieces of global garbage.  It’s easily as …

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Tide Pool Joy

As a professional stand-up comic, and an amateur surfer, I have this thing that if I can’t fall on my face, I don’t want to do it.  When my partner virtually begged me to go visit the “tidepools” with him, it sounded about as exciting as learning how to knit.  Are you kidding me?  Tide pools sounded like child’s play.  …

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The Driver’s Test

My wife and I have decided to make our move to Rosarito full-time.  After ten years of living here part-time, we feel comfortable in making the total commitment.  But, that involves some major changes. First hurdle, obtain a California driver’s license.  I went online and found and printed some practice tests.  Always one to take short cuts, I figured we’d …

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